Title
Carpeteo Redux: Surveillance and Subversion Against the Puerto Rican Student Movement
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2017
Department
American Studies
Language
English
Publication Title
Radical History Review
Abstract
This article examines the practice of “carpeteo,” or politicized police surveillance and targeted harassment, during the 2010 and 2011 student strikes at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR). LeBrón argues that police and security forces engaged in tactics that deeply resonated, for many students, with historical forms of repression experienced by political dissidents in Puerto Rico. Drawing from interviews with student activists, the author details how students culled from popular knowledge about the violent, politicized policing experienced by Puerto Rican radical movements in order to position themselves within a genealogy of repression and resistance on the island. Rather than understanding their experience as unique or unprecedented, UPR students instead situated their movement, and the policing of their movement, within historical struggles against inequality and colonial rule in Puerto Rico.
DOI
10.1215/01636545-3857854
Recommended Citation
LeBrón, Marisol "Carpeteo Redux Surveillance and Subversion Against the Puerto Rican Student Movement." Radical History Review 128 (2017): 147-172.
Comments
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